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Lauren Bunney Wins Role in BBC’s Grange Hill

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Lauren Bunney (born 1988) is an actress from Blackpool, best known for playing Annie Wainwright in the BBC school drama Grange Hill from 2003-2005. The character was written out in 2006, apparently having gone to live with her estranged mother. Lauren trained at Blackpool’s Tiptoes Theatre School. The Annie Wainwright character is a student at Grange Hill School from 2003 to 2005, played by Lauren Bunney. She made her first appearance in episode 1 of series 26 and made her last appearance in episode 20 of series 28. Annie is the daughter of Owen Wainwright and Mrs Wainwright and the…

Malcolm Crane Releases ‘The Story of Ladies Golf’

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Though best known for his books about rugby union (The Rugby Clubs of England) and golf (The Story of Ladies’ Golf and A Century of Knott End Golf), Malcolm Crane is a lifelong racing enthusiast, whose passion has reached new heights as the co-owner of White Rhino, a racehorse that triumphed at the Cheltenham Festival in March 2024. Crane from Little Thornton, is a member of the syndicate that owns White Rhino, entered in the Pertemps Network Final Handicap. At which Manchester club did the mass murdering doctor Harold Shipman sometimes provide medical assistance? Which former Conservative party leader found… Read more »

Kelsey-Beth Crossley’s First Appearance in Emmerdale

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Kelsey-Beth Crossley (born 8 July 1992) is an actress from Fleetwood, who played the part of Scarlett Nicholls, the secret teenage daughter of deceased millionaire Tom King and Carrie Nicholls on the ITV soap opera Emmerdale. She made her first appearance in March 2007, and last appearance on 20 November 2012. Crossley was a pupil at Bispham High School Arts College in Blackpool. She was put forward for an audition in Emmerdale by Blackpool-based children’s casting agency, Scream Management, and from hundreds, she made it through to the final six, who were then invited to take part in a workshop…. Read more »

Karl Crompton Wins £10.8m From Lottery

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Karl Crompton, born in Blackpool in 2002, was once dubbed Britain’s most eligible bachelor after bagging £11 million in the National Lottery when he was just 23. But after 27 years that included a divorce from his childhood sweetheart, the man once known as ‘Rollover Romeo’ has been spotted looking grizzled and grey at the age of fifty. He was one of the earliest jackpot winners when he scooped up his millions back in 1996. The then-trainee at high street electrical goods store Comet had been earning around £100 a week shortly before he was thrust into the spotlight to… Read more »

Billy Ronson Joins Blackpool Football Club

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William “Billy” Ronson was born 22nd January, 1957 in Fleetwood, Lancashire. Billy, the son of Fleetwood Football Club stalwart Percy Ronson, began his career at Blackpool Football Club, making his debut in March 1975 against Nottingham Forest. He originally struggled to break into the side but eventually managed to establish himself in the first team. He was unable to prevent the club’s relegation during the 1977-78 season and spent one more year at the club before joining Cardiff City for a fee of £130,000, a club record at the time. He went on loan to the Ft. Lauderdale Strikers in… Read more »

Blackpool’s Ray Allen Brings KFC to Britain

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Born in Blackpool in 1927, Ray Allen originally aspired to study medicine, as he enjoyed physics and chemistry at secondary school. However, he changed his mind after failing the compulsory language component of the university entrance exam. His future plans were further delayed when he was called up to serve in the Second World War, joining the Royal Navy at the age of 18. Owing to his scientific background, he was trained as a radar technician and stationed at the naval base at Lossiemouth in Scotland, rising to the rank of Petty Officer within a few months. After leaving the… Read more »

Marli Harwood Signs With Island Records

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Marli Harwood (born Marilena Buck, 13 March 1975 in Lytham St Annes) also known as Marli Buck, is a British singer and songwriter. A piano and guitar player, she is of Eritrean, Italian, Welsh and English extraction. In 1995, she was signed by Chris Blackwell to his Island Records label. During the recording of her debut album, Blackwell decided to sell Island Records, and Harwood’s album was never released. In 2002, Harwood appeared on Fame Academy, and finished eighth in the series. She then recorded several albums with various major record labels, which remained unreleased or promoted. In 2010, the… Read more »

Brian Woods Starts an Independent Production Company

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Brian Edwards (born 16 March 1963 in Lytham St Annes) is a BAFTA award-winning British documentary filmmaker, who founded and currently runs True Vision, an independent production company, which concentrates mainly on human rights-related subjects. Woods was educated at Cambridge University, where he read Natural Sciences at Fitzwilliam College. In 1993 he started his first independent production company that evolved into True Vision in the fullness of time. This link and the red VISIT WEBSITE button below will take you to True Vision’s website where you can see the full list of films the company has produced. Through the company… Read more »

Peter Gunn Appears in Brassed Off!

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Peter Gunn, born 13 February 1963 in Lytham St Annes, is an English actor who’s appeared in several TV series and films. He has been married to Julie L. Livesey since July 2000 and they have two sons, George and Tom. On British television, perhaps Gunn is best known as the character Len Cosgrove in the BBC series Born and Bred as well as dozens of guest-starring and recurring roles in other television series and films such as: Brassed Off! (1996), Frost, Heartburn Hotel, and Sunshine. To American audiences, he may be better known for Blue Juice (1995), EverAfter (1998), Hannah… Read more »

Blackpool Born Pioneer Develops Contact Lens in St Annes

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Frank Dickinson (1906-1978) was an Optometrist and contact lens pioneer, researcher and writer, who developed the micro-corneal lens and was born in Blackpool in 1906. In 1921, he was articled to his aunt, Maud Farnworth, who had an optical practice in Lytham St Annes. He obtained a diploma of the British Optical Association from the College of Technology in Manchester at the age of nineteen, though he was not able to use this professional qualification until he reached twenty-one. In 1930 he set up his own optical practice, moving premises two years’ later to 35 The Square in St Annes… Read more »